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enRevver - Got video? Get paid!http://hermann-uwe.de/blog/revver-got-video-get-paid
<p>Hm, more food for <a href="http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/i-ordered-the-new-video-ipod">my video iPod which hasn't arrived yet</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.revver.com/">Revver</a> ("a <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> for video") is a new video publishing community site which allows you to upload, share, watch, and tag videos for free. You need a <a href="http://revver.com:5050/downloadClient/">special upload tool</a> for uploading videos (there's a Windows version, a MacOS X version, and a Java version which probably works on Linux).</p>
<p>They intend to <a href="http://www.revver.com:5050/makeMoney/">give the creators of the videos some money</a> by attaching a clickable advertisement frame (the so-called <a href="http://www.revver.com/advertise/">RevTag&trade;</a>) at the end of each video. Everytime a viewer clicks the ad, the video creator gets some money. While this might be a great idea, it still leaves me with a strange feeling (the ad is not on a webpage, it's appended to the video itself!)...</p>
<p>Some noteworthy details:</p>
<ul>
<li>They currently have a size limit of 100 MB per video.</li>
<li>They don't censor the videos except for obvious copyright violations (porn yes, illegal stuff no).</li>
<li>You get 50% of the money and Revver gets the other 50%.</li>
<li>You need a <a href="http://www.paypal.com/">PayPal</a> account to get the money.</li>
<li>"Your videos stay on Revver for as long as they generate a reasonable amount of revenue" (no unlimited hosting, it seems).</li>
<li>The videos are automatically put into iTunes and formatted to work with the <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipod.html">video iPod</a>.</li>
<li>All videos are automatically converted into the mov format.</li>
<li>The default license for the videos is the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons ShareAlike</a> license (you can probably choose others, I didn't check).</li>
</ul>
<p>More information is in their <a href="http://blog.revver.com/index.php?id=3">first blog post</a>, and in the <a href="http://www.revver.com/learnMore/">FAQ</a>.</p>
<p>A final quote from the blog post:</p>
<blockquote><p>
It’s a new game, we’re thrilled to be in it, and we tip our hats bigtime to the <a href="http://www.ourmedia.org/">Ourmedia</a> crew, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a> crew, the <a href="http://participatoryculture.org/">Participatory Culture</a> crew, the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> crew, and all the other crews that came before us.
</p></blockquote>
<p>All in all this looks quite promising, and I'm curious how it will develp and grow...</p>
<p>(via <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/10/27/revver_a_flickr_for_.html">Boing Boing</a>)</p>
http://hermann-uwe.de/blog/revver-got-video-get-paid#comments5gadsbetaccflickripodmediapaypalrevtagrevvertagsvideoweb2.0Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:48:28 +0200Uwe Hermann488 at http://hermann-uwe.de